danbalthasar

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by danbalthasar 7y ago
Full disclosure: I'm a Flutter team member who has focused specifically on iOS development. There are a number of us dedicated to this on the team internally at Google. It's definitely a priority. Each platform has its own chall
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by danbalthasar 8y ago
There's a demo of running native tests that also test flutter on iOS here: https://github.com/flutter/ios_add2app
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by danbalthasar 8y ago
Flutter's edge over these technologies is faster development cycles (very fast build times, sub-second reloading without losing state, very rapid ability to update code/GUI after deployment to a testing device, and very fast rende
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by danbalthasar 8y ago
I hear you. I was suspicious of this too, but there's been a lot of work put into making the controls we design work well and properly implement accessibility/native platform behaviors. And when something is off, someone ends up
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by danbalthasar 8y ago
Flutter takes full control of the rendering pipeline directly on both platforms - all the controls your seeing are written in Dart for Flutter, but designed to mimic the best of what the platform offers. In particular, this means that if yo
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by danbalthasar 8y ago
Dart 2.0 is not Dart 1.0. And the Flutter team has had a large hand in shaping and forming Dart to its current state (and continues to drive certain priorities for it). Dart is easy to learn (espeically if you come from a JavaScript, Java,
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by danbalthasar 8y ago
First party maps support has recently landed, as well as WebView. Geolocation plugins have been available for quite sometime now, as have encryption and file storage.
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by danbalthasar 8y ago
There is a large and growing team supporting Flutter at Google. Flutter is here to stay, and even beyond Google's investment in it there's a large number of dedicated community contributors too!
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by danbalthasar 8y ago
Dart isn't perfect, and I think at the least would really benefit from Union types. There are some open issues related to these things though: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/4938 (Unions) http